Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-01
NEWS AND NOTES


There are only two professional prize
| fighters in all Italy.
A Florida mother has two children, one
named jefferson Davis and the other Abraham
| Lincoln.
For lack Of Bible notary public at
| Newark, N. j., swoie man on the koran the
Other day.
A San Francisco paper places the num-
| Der OF cas- ern visitors now at the various Cali
! fornia resorts at p 600, and predicts the influx
! VIII be even greater another year.
One day recently g newspaper pub
! li=hed at Consjantinople had the following jot:
His Majest, (the Sutan) is slightly indispO7ed,
| having been bitten by mosquito last night
The Ia est eulogist Of Mrs. Cleveland
says: Her mold and style are Of the kind that
! improve with age and merge the girl In o d
! grand woman who never fades or becomes IN
| attractive"
One of the largest and most perfect
| emeralds in the country has just bee pre-
/ scented 10 James Frank Morrison of Baltimore.
| It. weighs six and five eighth carats, and is
worth about $4,000
"M '7I-'84" is the official appellatiOn Of
| the new weapon adopted by the German army,
which, translated. or rather written out in full,
would signify: "Manser gun, invented in 81,
| changed into magazine gun 1854"
The number of French people in the
Western Hemi.phere Is 344 900, divided chiefly
as follows: United STATES, lO6 972; Mexico,
Is 600: Hayti, $4,000; Cnin, 33 4; argentine Re
public, l53O0 Uruguay, 1888; Brazil, 6l08
Removing the brain of pigeon does
n OF destroy it's mental faculties. 1t can see,
hear feel swallow food put in It's mouth, hut
is incapable of orr Sinating any imOulse. 1t
will stand still in the attitude in which st is
placed until it dies of starvation, but throw IL
in the air and 1t VIII fly.
that L. uyv,or iC Of
a carpenter. He can file q bill, split hail,
chop logic, dovetail an argument, axe an
entry, get up case, frame an Indictment,
empanel jury, put them in box, nail wit
ness, hammer judge, bore a court, chiseI
client, and o ner ike things.
| In the tobacco towns of Virginia and
North Carolina the people have a homemade
remedy for rheum 7tism which Is strongly ad
vOcated by the Hon. Thomas l.. CllnQman.
They bind tobacco leaf about the affected pa I,
whereupOn the rheumatism disappears. One
man tn led 1t on an ailing horse, tbinding leaves
on Its belly. The horse died.
St. Louis is the greatest strawberry
market In the world, and /. daily receives dur
ing the season tons ard tons of the berries from
Arkansas and lower Missouri. special cars are
side tracked at all important stations, and in
the evening the farmers come from miles
around with great baskets of tempting berries
to be consigned to the st. Louis dealers.
Under date of March Mr.. E. J. Phelps,
American minister to England, wrote In Vrl-
vate letter from Monte Carlo: 1.-THE earthquake
did no harm here, but Mentone, five miles dis
tant, is ruined About $50 houses are so far de
strOyt that they must be taken down, inCIud-
In the principal hotels. Many others are in
juIe1, All visitors have fed. Little DAMAGE
was done at Cannes, and not much at Nice; in
some SIN Her places good DEAL with heIlOus
loss of life"
A writer on Florida and Florida lands
declares that these are the facts: l. Orange
trees do not begin to bear until taev are fifteen
4 good q q nj In IN
lots by the various land companies may be OBJ
tanned from the government at about S25 for 100
&C es, under the pre- emptiOn laws, by going a
little farther back into the interior. 3 There is
no way that a farmer can get living there I'm
less by raising oranges 4. The climate is about
the best in the world,
Buren, S. WATSON of La Porte, Iowa,
who Is beginning to win for himself name az
writer on free trade and kindred TOPICS en-
joys the distinction, besides that of being live
country Journalist, OF being the youngest post
master holding "presidential' Office in the
country. He received his commission In 1885, |
when but twenty-five years of age. He is q La
Porte boy and began his journalistic career as
one of the editors of the La Fsrte Progress at |
the age of nineteen Among Mr. TYassOn's lit |
ersry efforts may be mentioned a strong free !
trade article printed in the Chicago Current !
Brisbin, who had espoused the protection
cause.
The investigation into the Buffalo hotel |
fire showed that 1t originated in the cloakroom
under the stairway, and the night clerk was
unable to put 1t cut because he couId not get !
the kinks out of the hose One result of this |
fire has been to stimu ate an endeaYor to make |
safe the lives of guests at hoIes. Already a |
bull has been introduced In the New York Leg |
islature to compel landlords to put as a part of
the furniture of every room a coied rope SO |
fastened to some fixed point to bear the |
weight of man or woman Upon this thew
may let themselves down in case of ernergenCv
Feeble persons and timid women might MOI |
readily accept his mode OF escape, but 1t is |
better than nothing
There is, it would seem, still some in
teresiing an,hropologiCal discoveries to be |
made in Europe by an enterprising CULVER |
Professor Morazta, while Yoyaging In search of |
the marvellous, has fonnd in a PyreIean valley
& race Of little people, none of whom are more
than four feet high, and who are known among
their neighbOrs as Nanos. Judged by the stan
dards OF other nations, the NanOs are not beau
tiful, for they all have red hair, their eyes are
Oblique, their noses ia, and their teeth pro
iect, while their faces are g broad as they are
long. But they greatly admire one another,
and never marry out of the clan. Education f.
not feature of the Nano community. None
OF the Nanos can count, out most of them know
their own names, and some can remember
those of their parents.
DR.. E. G. Rogers recently died at
Quincy, Mich, leaving somewhat remarkable !
will. He was bachelor brother of the sculp-
tor, Randolph Rog RS and eft property valued
at S. ,0C0. The sum of $4,000 was left the
children of his brother Randolph andSlI 600 in
sums OF $1,000 to the children Of other brothers
and sisters. aud two cousIns In the state of New
York. The remainder OF his estate he directs
his executors to take possession of and to dis
tribute among the widows of six drunkards in
sUeh amounts as they shall deem best. The
number eff these benefCiares at any one time
is strictly limited to six. Otherwise the execu-
tors are left untrammeled. Already a move
ment is on foot by some of his relatives, OF
which he had quite large number. TO contest j
the will.
Augustus Schooumaker, Jr., who has
Iust been appointed commissioner under the
inter state commerce act, although In later
years Attorney General and civil service com.